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The Wild Bird Trust proudly presents this week’s Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week! Thank you to all the photographers for contributing your work and please keep your beautiful photographs coming! Please share the blog, follow us on Instagram and Twitter and most of all, check out the brand new Wild Bird Trust…

The Wild Bird Trust and the Wildbird! Revolution are proud to present the 90th edition on the Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the week. Each week we are flooded with far more than 25 worthy entries which makes the job of selecting the “Top 25” extremely difficult but also very rewarding. We thank all…

The Wild Bird Trust proudly presents the 87th edition of the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week”. These weekly selections form the back bone of the WildBird! Revolution which is all about celebrating and sharing the beauty of birds. Thank you to the talented and patient photographers who submitted their incredible snapshots of…

The Wild Bird Trust is proud to present the 83rd edition of the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week”. Each week we are overwhelmed by the quantity and calibre of photographs we receive from photographers from around the world. This makes the job of selecting the Top 25 as difficult as it is…

Hello, and welcome to the 80th edition of “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week”! Since reviving the blog earlier this year we have been overwhelmed by the influx of incredible photo entries we are receiving on the Facebook page. We are thrilled to see that many of the entries are coming from photographers…

Apologies for the long wait for these editions! Whistling ducks, oystercatchers, bald eagles, flycatchers, and woodpeckers. Our mission is to build a global community around the freedom and beauty of birds in the wild as ambassadors for the natural ecosystems that they depend upon. They are the music, decoration and character of every terrestrial habitat…

This week on National Geographic, join host Boyd Matson and his guests as they summit Everest seven times, train for an Antarctic speed record, chase water while dodging cats in Africa, sing along with an astronaut, and overcome a traumatic brain injury.

All birds great and small are a wonder of nature and an example to us all. They are the global ambassadors that ignore borders and tell us that we are one global community without borders. Go beyond borders. We need to care more about our neighbors in the hope that they will care more about…

Birds really do show us that we are ONE PLANET and share everything from ancestry, to space, food, water, weather, oceans and landscapes. We need to stop turning a blind eye to the ongoing wild-caught bird trade around the world and recognize the amazing lives of these masters of the sky and ancestors of the…

Conservation India estimate that between 120,000 and 140,000 Amur falcons are being slaughtered every year in NE India!

This shocking massacre of 12,000 - 14,000 migrating Amur falcons per day in the remote state of Nagaland in north-eastern India happened just last month and has been going on for years. Please watch this video by Conservation India. (Conservation India / www.conservationindia.org)

In October 2012, Conservation India documented the shocking massacre of tens of thousands of migrating Amur falcons (Falco amurensis) in the remote state of Nagaland in north-eastern India. Shashank Dalvi and Ramki Sreenivasan estimate that between 120,000 and 140,000 Amur falcons are being slaughtered every year in NE India, which sees the largest congregations of…

Advances in digital photography have given us the opportunity to capture the beauty and freedom of birds in the wild like never before. In January 2011, the Wild Bird Trust set up a Facebook page with the intention of celebrating free flight and birds in the wild from around the world. Here are the “Top 25 Wild…

Advances in digital photography have given us the opportunity to capture the beauty and freedom of birds in the wild like never before. In January 2011, the Wild Bird Trust set up a Facebook page with the intention of celebrating free flight and birds in the wild from around the world. Here are the “Top 25 Wild…

Advances in digital photography have given us the opportunity to capture the beauty and freedom of birds in the wild like never before. In January 2011, the Wild Bird Trust set up a Facebook page with the intention of celebrating free flight and birds in the wild from around the world. Here are the “Top 25 Wild…

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